2022 Overview:
2022! The year I finally returned to theaters. The year I fully launched this site. I figure it will be fun to gather movies I’ve seen by year as I watch and review, and I’m starting with 2022.
- 2022 Annual Recap
- The B.A.D.S. by The Goods 2022
- Best Picture: Pearl
- The Top 10 Movies of 2022
- The Bottom 5 Movies of 2022
- Most Anticipated (Start of 2022, Pictured): Cha Cha Real Smooth
2022 Movies Watched and Rated:
- Last Updated: 12/3/24
- Note: Previously this list was ranked, but I’ve since changed my process to group into “Is It Good?” tiers rather than a strict rank. You can view that ranking, before it was abandoned, here.
- Ratings on the Is It Good? scale
- (**) = no full length review
- (s) = short film
- (p) = The Goods: A Film Podcast episode
Exceptionally Good (7/8)
- Decision to Leave
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Falcon Lake**
- Pearl
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish**
- TÁR (Tar)
Very Good (6/8)
- Aftersun**
- Babylon (p)
- Banshees of Inisherin**
- Bones and All**
- Causeway
- Confess, Fletch
- Do Revenge
- Elvis
- The Fabelmans
- Haulout** (s)
- The House
- The Ice Merchants** (s)
- I Like Movies**
- Three Thousand Years of Longing
- (Guillermo Del Toro’s) Pinocchio
- The Northman
- Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical**
- RRR
- Skinamarink
- Top Gun: Maverick
- X
Good (5/8)
- About Fate**
- Am I OK?
- Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
- The Batman
- Bodies Bodies Bodies
- Bros
- Cha Cha Real Smooth
- Emily the Criminal
- Fall
- The Flying Sailor** (s)
- Funny Pages
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery**
- Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline**
- Look Both Ways
- A Man Called Otto
- M3GAN (Megan)
- The Menu
- Minions: The Rise of Gru
- My Year of Dicks** (s)
- Moonshot
- Nope
- Sam & Kate
- Scrooge: A Christmas Carol**
- Strange World
- The Sea Beast
- Till**
- To Leslie**
- Triangle of Sadness
- Turning Red
- Watcher
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
- When You Finish Saving the World
- Women Talking
Nearly Good (4/8)
- Alice, Darling**
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Armageddon Time
- Barbarian
- The Bad Guys
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse** (s)
- Call Jane**
- Crush
- The Curse of Bridge Hollow
- Disenchanted
- Empire of Light
- Honor Society
- Metal Lords
- My Father’s Dragon**
- Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
- Palm Trees and Power Lines
- Persuasion
- Scream (p)
- She Said
- Snow Day
- Spirited** (p)
- Talk to Me
- Ticket to Paradise
- Troll**
- Zombies 3 (p)
Not Very Good (3/8)
- 38 at the Garden** (s)
- The Blackening
- Don’t Make Me Go
- Don’t Worry Darling
- Falling for Christmas
- Lightyear
- Mickey Saves Christmas (s)
- Monster High: The Movie**
- Not Okay
- Rosaline
- Sharp Stick
- Where the Crawdads Sing
Not Good (2/8)
- Amsterdam
- Halloween Ends
- Love & Gelato
- Luck
- Moonfall**
- Stranger at the Gate** (s)
Very Not Good (1/8)
2022 Review Index
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